Slug generator
Turn titles into clean URL slugs: accents transliterated, emoji and punctuation dropped, words joined by dashes. Paste one title per line to make many at once.
Worked example
Accents, punctuation and an emoji, with the default options.
Crème Brûlée: A Beginner’s Guide 🍮
creme-brulee-a-beginners-guide
Common mistakes
Changing the slug of a published page
Old links and bookmarks will break. If you must change it, redirect the old address to the new one.
Keeping dates and numbers that will go stale
A slug like best-laptops-2025 looks old next year. Leave the year out if you plan to update the page.
Mixed case in URLs
Many servers treat /About and /about as different pages. Lowercase slugs avoid duplicate addresses.
Cutting slugs mid-word
how-to-bake-br looks broken. The maximum length here always cuts at the last whole word that fits.
How it works
- 1
Paste your titles
One per line. Each line becomes one slug, and blank lines stay blank so the lists line up.
- 2
Set the options
Dash or underscore, lowercase on or off, a maximum length that cuts at a word boundary, and optionally drop short words like “the” and “of”.
- 3
Copy or download
Copy the slugs or download them as a text file, one per line.
Questions
- What is a URL slug?
- The readable part of a web address that names a page, like how-to-bake-bread in example.com/blog/how-to-bake-bread.
- How are accents and special letters handled?
- Accented letters lose their accents (é → e, ñ → n), and letters that don’t decompose are spelled out: ß → ss, æ → ae, ø → o, ł → l, đ → d. An ampersand becomes “and”.
- What happens to Cyrillic, Greek or Chinese text?
- Letters from other alphabets are kept as they are, since browsers support them in addresses. They are not transliterated to Latin letters.
- Dashes or underscores?
- Dashes are the common choice for web pages, and they read as word breaks. Underscores are more usual in file names and code identifiers.
- Should I remove stop words?
- It makes slugs shorter, for example the-art-of-the-deal becomes art-deal. It can also change the meaning, so check the result. If a title is only stop words, they are kept.